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Tarfumes.com - Drop Dead Beautiful
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List Price: $24.95
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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
Format: Bargain Price
Label: St. Martin's Press
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: 2007-06-26
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date: 2007-06-26
Studio: St. Martin's Press
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The bestselling author of Lovers & Players returns with her 25th fabulous novel and her most beloved character...Get ready for the scandalously scintillating read only Jackie Collins can deliver! Lucky Santangelo is back with a vengeance--still every bit as strong, sexy, and seductive as ever! But Lucky is older and wiser, and hot to reclaim her power position in Las Vegas. However, a deadly enemy from her past has resurfaced--a person determined to take everything from her, including the family she holds so dear: two sons and an out-of-control teenage daughter who is just as outrageous as Lucky herself. Like mother, like daughter. And if that old saying holds true, it’s going to be one wild ride. Internationally bestselling author Jackie Collins marks her twenty-fifth novel with “another page-turning tale packed with intrigue, revenge and romance,” (Publishers Weekly on Lovers and Players). Aren't we lucky?!
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Summary: Jackie C. has still got it!!
Comment: I haven't read any Jackie Collins books in years and I must say she still has it. This book had me hooked!!!! It was very captivating from the first CD (audiobook) I loved it & am so glad I picked it up.
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Summary: Another Charmer
Comment: I loved this book! I though it was a page turner. The suspense angle Jackie took in the daughters love triangle (I don't want to spoil it) really made me want to run a few pages ahead to find out how it played out. The characters were full of sparkle and sex appeal. It was a hold on to your hats romance, suspense and behind the scenes peek at at the mafia life all rolled into one. In the end, regardless of the situation, Lucky survived. I can't wait to see what happens in her next adventure.
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Summary: This book sucks!!!
Comment: I cannot believe that I wasted my time with this book. I am a huge fan of the other books that involve Lucky Santangelo but this book was just bad, bad, bad. The writing was sub-par and the plot was just stupid. Max - stupid. Ace - stupid. Cookie and Harry - stupid. Lennie - he was only there for sex and incompetent advice. I could go on but why waste more of my time on this piece of trash. Don't buy it, I implore you all out there who haven't read it yet. . .don't!
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Summary: Drop dead mediocre
Comment: Ok, so after reading through the reviews, I see that I'm not alone in thinking this episode in the Santangelo saga was a waste of perfectly good paper. Never thought I'd say it as I've been a huge Lucky fan since I first read Chances 16 years ago, but I think Jackie's lost her edge. Is she just at the point that she knows any old book will sell so she mixes up the ol' Collins formula leaving out anything fresh or exciting and scrambles to get it published?
What's the formula you ask? It goes like this: lead with a mysterious character plotting revenge on another central character; next introduce at least one new character that is stunningly attractive and in the middle of some detailed sex act; talk about central characters from previous novels and how wealthy and attractive they are ad nauseum; have at least one extremely stupid/naive female character plan to meet with someone they shouldn't; include at least one deranged character that has no motive other than their sheer craziness; and most important of all is the token bad mafioso character who must at some point do all of the following: walk into a room with greedy eyes darting around, slap a woman in the face as his pinky ring cuts into her delicate facial skin (I swear, this happened TWICE in Drop Dead Beautiful!), force a woman to give him oral sex, call someone the C-word, etc....
If you're looking for only "the formula" then step right up because Drop Dead Beautiful will not disappoint. But if you're more the nostalgic type like me who can still remember staying up all night breathlessly devouring "Chances" and "Lucky" and being blown away by the sheer audacity of Jackie's characters and their shenanigans, then prepare to be disappointed. You will likely get tired of how insanely happy and perfect for each other Lucky and Lennie are, how old and crotchety Gino has become, how one dimensional ALL the characters are, and especially how blatantly out of touch Jackie is with technology and youth and popular culture. News flash Jackie: if you're going to name-drop real celebrities, try mentioning a few that are actually relevant to this decade!!
Bottom line: I didn't care about ANY of the characters in this book. All it made me want to do is go back and reread Chances and Lucky so I can ask myself once more, "What happened to THAT Jackie Collins?"
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Summary: The Return of Lucky
Comment: I enjoyed revisting Lucky and the whole Santangelo clan.
The only bad thing about the book was that nothing new really happened. Lucky worried about her kid and her hotel, but this isn't the Lucky we're used to, who normally takes the world by storm. It seemed like JC was trying to pass the torch to Max for future books, but she never really developed Max as a strong enough character to carry a single book, let alone continue the saga. There also wasn't nearly enough Gino -- it seemed like he, along with the rest of Lucky's live-out family, were forced into the book just to make an appearance rather than having anything substantial to do.
The world of the Santangeos is a good one to get lost in for a couple of days. I just wish this one had been a bit less "domestic" and a bit more "Lucky."
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